| INTEGRAL | Altering afresh - it's essential (8) |
| TINSEL | Listen afresh, it's glittering stuff |
| SQUAREONE | Engineer can request a book, needing to start afresh, it's said (4,2,6,3) |
| BACKTO | Engineer can request a book, needing to start afresh, it's said (4,2,6,3) |
| KEYSTONE | It's essential to follow clues by directions (8) |
| IMMANENT | I am meeting the worker at ten? Translated, it's essential! (8) |
| INHERENT | It's essential this place in the pub gets half the good books shortly (8) |
| RUDIMENT | It's essential for weakling to keep a small coin (8) |
| STARDUST | It's essential for celebrity kiss-and-tellers perhaps to come over clean (8) |
| PASSPORT | Gorge on drink - it's essential if you want to get away from it all (8) |
| CLADDING | Reckon it's essential to grip, as building material |
| PLATELET | It's essential for blood clotting |
| AGNOSTIC | One doubts it's essential to dance with a backflip? |
| DOGGYBAG | Child's pet name for the chips - of course, it's essential for any takeaway (5,3) |
| KEYBOARD | Given this, one must hit the right note - it's essential to get on |
| PRIMARYCOORS | Beer reduced to its essential ingredients? |
| DISTILL | Break down to its essential elements |
| TAO | The art of doing something in harmony with its essential nature |
| ASCORBICACID | Since my book, one about detectives, it's essential to stay alive (8,4) |
| NEEDFUL | Dancing nude with elf, it's essential (7) |
